US: Fort Worth Star Telegram redesign
The Forth Worth Star-Telegram (Texas) launched a redesign Sunday, reducing width, adding color, and making stories shorter and adding quick-read formats.
Each section now contains a “destination” page with blurbs on top stories, while the front page focuses on showcasing the best of the entire newspaper, not just the day’s biggest stories. A new “Your Life” section focuses on health, family, money, and style, and the new Friday entertainment section, “GO!” will be a guide to weekly outings and activities.
Many readers who commented on the paper’s website seemed uncomfortable with the change. Several thought the new paper was too busy and that the front page looked too much like an advertisement. Others complained about new, smaller type. One reader’s comment summed up the general consensus:
“I know times call for change, but I did like the ‘old town’ newspaper look, with lines separating stories and columns, without the all the colors, and found it easier to read,” he wrote. “That is one of the things I always liked about the Star Telegram, was that they stayed with the look of a real newspaper, not a read all-see all, like USA Today. I will, of course, be reading and see if I can adjust. My vote is to stay the way we were.”
Source: News Designer through Ifra Executive News Service
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I am extremely disappointed in your new format. I feel you have abandoned your mission as newspaper publisher. Your present product does not qualify. A better discriptive term would be glitter rag. I am seriously contemplating cancelling my longstanding subscription. I want a newspaper that reports news in detail. You have become disloyal to your subscribers and advertisers in an ill directed effort to compete with e-zines and sensationalized news publications. I hope your advertisers object as I do and will tighten your pursestrings until you come to your senses.
I absolutely love the new format. It is much easier to read
Mc News.
Enjoy the paper, buy every weekend!Subscribed 5/19/07 to weekend delivery on the basis would receive the paper weekends 5AM-530AM am leaving, no paper.
$54.65 later and the adamant young man, supposedly, Sam Wagner 817-443-8950, called disturbed lady that answered, confirmened #wrong # proabably wrong name.
The Star surely is not so desparate to begin intently defrauding people, would'nt think so or you have have scam artist's taking advantage of your good name and reputation.
The receipt certainly appears authentic however will cancel check (hope I'm in time and my personal info won't be laundred about), just another exercise of futility which leaves me with a different attitude towards ST
I've always been of the opinion that people that represent any company are a reflection of the management of that company.
Hope in this case it's not true.
With newspapers in dire, head-on competition with the Internet these days, it is a delight to see one of them face the challenge head on, and go for a drastic re-design.
Looks great.
Can't figure why so many people interpret such revamping as some sort of con job.
--Jack Payne
www.sixhrs.com